HTML5 Game Development Insights (eBook) von Colt McAnlis

PART 1

1. JavaScript is Not the Language You Think it is

2. Optimal Asset Loading

3. Performance JavaScript

4. Efficient JavaScript Data Structures

PART 2

5. Faster Canvas Picking

6. Autotiles

7. Leveraging Flash for HTML5

8. Applying Performance Improvement Techniques Used in Old-School Videogames

9. Optimizing WebGL Usage

10. Playing Around with the Gamepad API

PART 3

11. Introduction to WebSockets

12. Multiplayer Real-time Networking

PART 4

13. Responsive Game Design: Letting Game Mechanics and Controller Inputs Flow with Your Layout

14. Making a Game That Works on Both Mobile and Desktop

15. Better Than Native: 60fps Fullscreen on Mobile

16. Creating Mobile Web Games with Canvas 2D API

17. Faster Map Rendering

PART 5

18. Writing C++ on the Web with Emscripten

19. Making HTML5 Games with TypeScript

20. Best Practices When Implementing the Main Loop

PART 6

21. Using Crunch for Super-compressed WebGL Textures

22. Building a 2D Map Editor in HTML5

23. Building Automated Workflows With NodeJS and Grunt

24. Build a Game with Cocos2d-html5 Library

The book is comprised of six main sections: Performance; Game Media: Sound and Rendering; Networking, Load Times, and Assets; Mobile Techniques and Advice; Cross-Language JavaScript; Tools and Useful Libraries. Within each of these sections, you will find tips that will help you work faster and more efficiently and achieve better results.

Presented as a series of short chapters from various professionals in the HTML5 gaming industry, all of the source code for each article is included and can be used by advanced programmers immediately.